System for bridging, managing, and presenting smartphone and other data files with telephony interactions

ABSTRACT

A system for interfacing with mobile carrier networks, mobile application-equipped devices, social media networks, and individual and Enterprise user&#39;s databases, contacts, pictures, videos, and text is disclosed. A data link is connected to a mobile carrier network to receive user application and other data. Additional data links are connected to a user&#39;s stored smartphone content, including contacts, pictures, videos and other stored information as well as databases and an application-equipped device to obtain and exchange information in determining data selection, routing, presentation, and updating instructions. A user interface is connected to the system to accept configurable conditions for determining selection, routing and sharing instructions. There is a data conversion function for each data source. Synchronization between stored user preferences to automated or semi-automated updates and routes is provided by application driven consumer defined preferences.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No.15/045,427, filed Feb. 17, 2016 entitled SYSTEM FOR BRIDGING, MANAGING,AND PRESENTING SMARTPHONE & OTHER DATA FILES WITH TELEPHONY INTERACTIONSwhich relates to and claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional ApplicationNo. 62/117,687 filed Feb. 18, 2015 and entitled “SYSTEM FOR BRIDGING,MANAGING, AND PRESENTING SMARTPHONE & OTHER DATA FILES WITH TELEPHONYINTERACTIONS”, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/219,396 filedSep. 16, 2015 and entitled “SYSTEM FOR BRIDGING, MANAGING, ANDPRESENTING SMARTPHONE & OTHER DATA FILES WITH TELEPHONY INTERACTIONS”the entire disclosures of each which is hereby wholly incorporated byreference.

STATEMENT RE: FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT

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BACKGROUND 1. Technical Field

The present disclosure relates generally to telecommunication systems,and more particularly to cellular telecommunications, smartphoneapplications, and social network systems.

2. Related Art

Smartphones, social networks, and telecommunication systems facilitatethe sharing of comments, photographs, and other data amongst mobileusers. These users typically establish accounts for smartphone datastorage, application downloads and social networks, create profilescontaining basic biographic data, and create individual contact lists toshare personal data and communicate with. The subject matter of commentsposted on social networking sites oftentimes touch upon daily lifeexperiences, including those relating to user status, commentary, andphotographs. Today over 70% of all social posts occur on mobilesmartphone devices. Accordingly, the viewing and sharing ofuser-generated content on smartphones to social networking sites fromsmartphones provides users a valuable and entertaining experience.

Various social network systems offering mobile applications forsmartphone users to post are known in the art, including Facebook,LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and so forth. Unfortunately, however, thelogic of these systems, in order to take action and provide user postsin the form of status, commentary, and photographs, are designedspecifically for use and display within the respective social networksand do not contemplate usage for real-time native smartphone telephonyinteractions.

Another problem that besets social network applications in providinguser posts in the form of status, commentary, and photographs is thatsocial networks do not have the logic or know-how to mix user posts andselected user personal data with smartphone telephony interactions andmatch it with user selected individuals of smartphone devices and userinitiated telephony interactions. As a result, extending social userpost capabilities to smartphone telephony interactions has yet to bemade available.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art to connect user social postcapabilities in the form of status, commentary, photographs, and otherdirected content with smartphone user contact records and subsequentsmartphone telephony interactions so that users can share various statustypes such as status, commentary, photographs, and other content withtheir contacts, affiliated groups and/or desired recipients or anycombination of people at the onset of a smartphone telephony or othervisual telephony interaction via a phone line, cell tower, or theinternet based on system and user defined parameters.

In addition, there is a need in the art to extend current social postand profile capabilities to be more personalized/individualized anddynamic so that users can share specific content and specific profilepictures with individual contacts, groups and/or desired recipients ofany combination of people within their respective social networks.

BRIEF SUMMARY

The present disclosure is directed to a system that connects anddisplays user's selected personal smartphone data in conjunction withsmartphone telephony interactions for user's selected smartphone contactrecords. The system manages and determines the fulfilment of userinitiated post displays based on criteria selection of the user withinsaid system to facilitate highly personalized and preference-based postssimultaneous to telephony interactions on behalf of the user. Such postsmay include visual updates, status, content stored on the devices of thesender, receiver, and the internet, as well as new pictures/video thatcan be displayed during the establishment of real time smartphonetelephony interaction between users. In addition, the system can combinedelivery of data to and from a social network with data on the user'ssmartphone so as to create a unique post display to each contact recordstored on user's smartphone or elsewhere.

In accordance with one embodiment, there is a communications system forbridging smartphone or otherwise stored personal data, smartphonetelephony interactions and social networks. The system may include auser data access point connected to first data links to thesmartphone-stored or otherwise stored personal data over carriernetworks or social networks and receptive to data and routinginformation requests thereof. There may also be an enterprise dataaccess point connected to second data link to access additional systemusers. Furthermore, there may be an application server connected to theincoming data access point. The post data and routing informationrequests may be segregated based at least on configurable routing andstorage instructions. The system may further include a componentdatabase. Additionally, there may be a rules-based engine orintegrations to APIs from other sources for automated categorization,routing, and storage. The engine may be connected to the applicationserver and to the smartphone or enterprise data access point forcommunicating with the respective users.

According to another embodiment, there is provided a communicationssystem for bridging smartphone or otherwise stored personal data,smartphone telephony interactions and social networks. The systemincludes a user data access point disposable in communication with asmartphone's stored data, contacts, telephony commands and socialnetwork applications to receive and send post therefrom. A rules engineis in communication with the user data access point and is configured toanalyze the post requests and identify actionable updates associatedwith the post data and user access availability. The system and rulesengine logic is configured to match the identified actionablecharacteristics with a prescribed set of processing rules. Anapplication server is in communication with the user data access portand the rules engine and is configured to execute the set of processingrules matched with the identified actionable characteristics. A userdata access point is in communication with the application server anddisposable in communication with all user data access points tocommunicate with each for executing the processing rules.

The received post requests may include a content update, picture orother social communication format. A component database may includestored prioritization levels associated with post request attributes.The application server may be configured to assign a prioritization orother prioritization markets to the post requests in response to a queryof a component database.

The communication system may additionally include an enterpriseinterface in communication with the enterprise data access point orother systems and may be configured to display user or enterpriseinformation or offers in accordance with user records, rules andoptimizations.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provideda method for bridging smartphone users and enterprises to provide userscustomized visual data, content and offers. The method includesanalyzing the supplied smartphone user's data to identify actionablecharacteristics to then send enterprise data and targeted offers to thesmartphone user's screen during a telephony transaction. The methodfurther includes comparing the identified actionable attributes with adatabase of operational instructions matched with stored actionableattribute and rules/logic to identify operational instructionsassociated with the identified actionable attributes. The methodadditionally includes executing the identified operational instructionswhich includes sending a visual communication to a user during atelephony interaction.

The method may further include the step of storing the user datareceived from the smartphone.

The method may additionally include the step of matching the receiveduser data with stored user data. The matching step may include matchingthe received user data with post history and status data associated withthe user owner of the user data and or other similar users.

The method may further include the step of assigning a user post statusstate associated with a post status.

The method may also include the step of assigning a user post statusassociated with a social post delivery completion.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features and advantages of the various embodimentsdisclosed herein will be better understood with respect to the followingdescription and drawings, in which like numbers refer to like partsthroughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a system thatconnects and displays selected user personal smartphone data posts inconjunction with smartphone telephony interactions for selectedsmartphone contact records in accordance with one embodiment of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the steps of selecting, receiving,labeling, and storing user personal post data for use with selectedsmartphone contact records in conjunction with smartphone telephonyinteractions;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram depicting the system for connecting anddisplaying selected user personal smartphone data posts across multiplesmartphone devices; and

FIGS. 4A-C are screen shots of a sequence of exemplary user interfacedisplays of a smartphone application for use with the system thatconnects and displays selected user personal smartphone data posts.

Common reference numerals are used throughout the drawings and thedetailed description to indicate the same elements.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The detailed description set forth below in connection with the appendeddrawings is intended as a description of the present invention. Thedescription sets forth various functions in connection with theillustrated embodiments, but it is to be understood, however, that thesame or equivalent functions may be accomplished by differentembodiments that are also intended to be encompassed within the scope ofthe present disclosure. It is further understood that the use ofrelational terms such as first and second and the like are used solelyto distinguish one entity from another without necessarily requiring orimplying any actual such relationship or order between such entities.

With reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1, there is a system 100that connects and displays selected user personal smartphone data withsmartphone telephony interactions. In accordance with one embodiment,the communications system 100 is contemplated to bridge smartphone orotherwise stored personal data, smartphone telephony interactions andsocial networks. The system 100 includes smartphone user access pointand data proxy 105, which are connected to various smartphone userinterfaces and data 200-215. By way of example, there is a user Ainterface and data 200 that is connected to the user access point anddata proxy 105 over a connection 500, a user B interface and data 205that is connected to the user access point and data proxy 105 over aconnection 501, and a user C interface and data 210 that is connected tothe user access point and data proxy 105 over a connection 503. Thesethree user interface and data are presented by way of example only, andany additional number of user interfaces and data may be connectible tothe user data access point and data proxy 105, e.g., user N interfaceand data 215. The aforementioned data is understood to be that which isstored on the respective smartphones, or other stored personal data overcarrier networks or social networks.

There may also be an enterprise data access point 160 connected tosecond data links 700, 720 to access additional system users. Theseinclude a smartphone 300 for a user A, which includes a smartphoneinterface 305 and a smartphone data 310 that is accessed by theinterface via a data interlink 710. Furthermore, by way of example,there may be another smartphone 300 for a user B, which includes asmartphone interface 405 and a smartphone data 410 that is accessed viaa data interlink 730.

As shown in FIG. 1, the system 100 includes an application server 110that is connected to the incoming data access point, i.e., thesmartphone user data access point and data proxy 105 as well as theenterprise data access point 160. The post data and routing informationrequests may be segregated based at least on configurable routing andstorage instructions. The system may further include a componentdatabase 115 that is utilized by the application server 110 over aninterlink 605. Additionally, there may be a rules-based engine 120, aswell as integrations to APIs from other sources for automatedcategorization, routing, and storage. The rules engine 120 may beconnected to the application server over an interlink 615. Additionally,the application server 110 is connected to the enterprise data accesspoint 160 over an interlink 610, and the smartphone user data accesspoint and data proxy 105 is connected to the application server 100 overan interlink 600.

Referring now to the flowchart of FIG. 2, one embodiment of a method1000 for bridging smartphone users and enterprises to provide userscustomized visual data, content and offers will be described. In theexemplary embodiment, the user selects a contact in accordance with astep 1010. Furthermore, that user also selects or creates shared data ina step 1020. It is understood that this shared data may originate fromvarious social networking services, specifically, the user contentprovided thereto and/or may be incorporated back into such socialnetworks schema that allows users to share specific content and specificprofile pictures with individual social network contacts, groups and/ordesired recipients of any combination of people within their respectivesocial networks.

The method proceeds to a step 1030 where the data access point 105, 160processes the selected data. In accordance with a decision branch 1040,the availability of the selected contact is determined. If the contactis available, then the selected shared data is transmitted to the system100. Otherwise, the shared data is updated when it becomes available inaccordance with a step 1050. The shared data is stored in a database1060 in accordance with a step 1055, then the shared data is associatedwith the selected contact in a step 1065. Various fields of the recordassociated with the selected contact on the smartphone are thenpopulated with the shared data at the onset of a telephony interactionin accordance with a step 1070. Thus, data originating from socialnetworking sites and other contemplated sources may be retrieved forthis record field population operation.

If, in a decision branch 1075, it is evaluated that a rate data scoreoption is to be presented, the method proceeds to a step 1080 of scoringthe customer data. Then, updates are sent to a designated socialnetworking service in a step 1090, and to the extent the customer datais scored, it is processed in a step 1095. The method also includes astep 1100 of saving the rate data into a database 1105. The method thenends 1110.

As indicated above, the present disclosure contemplates the sharing ofdifferent content for different users or subgroups of users. Accordingto other embodiments of the disclosure, this may be applied in contextsother than mobile devices, such as, for example, the content shared onsocial networking sites or accessible via smartphone apps. Moreparticularly, person A may see Profile Picture A of an individual,whereas Person B may see Profile Picture B of an individual within theirsocial network and so on rather than everyone seeing Picture A. Thedynamically varying content need not be limited to profile pictures, butalso to update streams, comments, posts, and so forth, and each groupingof contacts may be designated to receive unique content as defined orsegmented by the owner of the account. Continuing with the foregoingexample, Person A who sees Profile Picture A, may receive Update StreamA, whereas Person B who sees Profile Picture B, may receive a differentUpdate Stream B. In some cases, a mixture of content in Update Stream Aand Update Stream B may be presented.

The block diagram of FIG. 3 depicts the system 100 on a more generalizedlevel. As indicated above, the system 100 stores the aforementionedimages, videos, and other content 1000 that is uploaded from therespective mobile devices and stored thereon for subsequenttransmission. The mobile devices each execute a mobile application 1100,with a first mobile device running a mobile application 1100 a and asecond mobile device running a mobile application 1100 b.

The screen shots of FIG. 4A-4C depict one exemplary user interface 1200of the mobile application 1100 running on the various mobile devicesthat connect to the system 100 displaying selected user personalsmartphone data with smartphone telephony interactions. Specifically,FIG. 4A is of an interface screen 1200 a for contacts stored on themobile device, and is a listing of names and associated contactinformation such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and the like thatare arranged in alphabetical order. In addition to name informationshown in a first column 1210 a, this listing may also include an inboundvisual data column 1210 b and an outbound visual data column 1210 c.

As indicated above, it is possible for certain personal data selected bya user of the smartphone initiating the telephony interaction to bepresented on the non-initiating or receiving end smartphone at the startof the telephony interaction. In this regard, the user of the smartphonecorresponding to the interface screen 1200 a, e.g., “John Smith” mayeither initiate the telephony interaction or receive the telephonyinteraction initiated by another user. This user may designate an imageor other visual data to be displayed, and an interface screen 1200 b isthe way in which this may be achieved. A main portion 1210 of theinterface screen 1200 b includes a selected image 1220, though otherpossible images may be designated via a selection interface 1230 thatincludes one or more reduced-size representations or icons of othervisual data 1240. It will be recognized that selecting these other iconsis operative to replace the main portion 1210 with a larger sizerepresentation of the selected visual data 1240. In this manner, theuser may designate visual data to be presented to users on the receivingend of a telephony interaction, with the outbound visual data column1210 c including a further reduced representation of the selected visualdata for that contact. For example, the contacts “Abigail Adams,” “AngelRavit,” “Ariel Bloom,” “Bachar Eran,” and “Braun Miriam” are assignedthe same image 1220.

When any of these users is on the receiving end of a telephonyinteraction initiated by the user, e.g., “John Smith,” as shown in anexemplary interface screen 1200 c of FIG. 4C, the image 1220 isdisplayed. Along these lines, the inbound visual data column 1210 binclude reduced representations of visual data that the userscorresponding to that contact have assigned for displaying on thecurrent user's, e.g., “John Smith” smartphone when receiving a telephonyinteraction therefrom.

Although the foregoing examples variously refer to images presented tousers, it is expressly contemplated that any data, including video data,audio data, text data, and any other data that may be visuallyrepresented may be substituted without departing from the scope of thepresent disclosure.

The particulars shown herein are by way of example only for purposes ofillustrative discussion, and are presented in the cause of providingwhat is believed to be the most useful and readily understooddescription of the principles and conceptual aspects of the variousembodiments set forth in the present disclosure. In this regard, noattempt is made to show any more detail than is necessary for afundamental understanding of the different features of the variousembodiments, the description taken with the drawings making apparent tothose skilled in the art how these may be implemented in practice.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for bridging and assigning specificusers' personal data contained on communications devices and socialnetworking services with user associated contacts at the onset of atelephony interaction, the method comprising: receiving, from a firstuser, a first selection of data destined for a second user, the firstselection being made on a selection interface screen of a remoteapplication on a device associated with the first user; sending thefirst selection of data to a device associated with the second user, thefirst selection of data being presentable on the device associated withthe second user in connection with a telephony interaction initiated bythe first user to the second user on the device associated therewith;matching, based upon the designation of the second user by the firstuser, a user account on a remote service associated with the seconduser; retrieving, based upon the matching of the second user to thecorresponding user account on the remote service, a second selection ofdata of the second user from a collection of data dynamically definedthereby; scoring the second selection of data of the second user;selectively sending the second selection of data to the first user basedupon the scoring thereof, the second selection of data being presentableto the first user in connection with a telephony interaction initiatedby the second user to the first user; associating the second selectionof data sent to the first user as inbound visual data, and the firstselection of data as outbound visual data, each for an entry in alisting of names corresponding to the second user; and displaying theentry corresponding the second user on a listing of names on a contactsinterface screen, a reduced representation of the inbound visual dataand a reduced representation of the outbound visual data being displayedin respective, adjacently positioned columns; wherein the telephonyinteractions are voice calls.
 2. The method recited in claim 1 furthercomprising identifying actionable characteristics associated with thefirst selection of data based upon an analysis of a user state of thefirst user, wherein the analysis of the user state includes identifyingrouting, origination or destination information associated with thefirst selection of data.
 3. The method recited in claim 1 furthercomprising identifying actionable characteristics associated with thefirst selection of data based upon an analysis of a user state of thefirst user, wherein the analysis of the user state includes processingthe first selection of data with a rules engine to identify theactionable characteristics.
 4. The method recited in claim 3 wherein therules engine categorizes the identified actionable characteristics intopredefined categories, the categories being associated with operationalinstructions.
 5. The method recited in claim 3 wherein the rules engineanalyzes the user state to determine the operational instructions. 6.The method recited in claim 1 further comprising: identifying actionablecharacteristics associated with the first selection of data based uponan analysis of a user state of the first user; and comparing theidentified actionable attributes with a database of operationalinstructions matched with stored actionable attributes to identifyoperational instructions associated with the identified actionableattributes, wherein the comparing step includes determining routinginstructions for the first selection of data to be sent to the seconduser.
 7. The method recited in claim 1 further comprising: identifyingactionable characteristics associated with the first selection of databased upon an analysis of a user state of the first user; and comparingthe identified actionable attributes with a database of operationalinstructions matched with stored actionable attributes to identifyoperational instructions associated with the identified actionableattributes, wherein the comparing step includes assigning aprioritization to the operational instructions when the user state meetsa prescribed prioritization threshold.
 8. The method recited in claim 1further comprising matching the received first selection of data withstored data.
 9. The method recited in claim 8 wherein the matching stepincludes matching the received first selection of data with dataassociated with the first user.
 10. The method recited in claim 1further comprising transmitting instructions to the remote service topublish the first selection of data and the score thereof, the firstselection of data being prioritized based upon the score associatedtherewith.
 11. The method recited in claim 1, further comprisingdisplaying, on the remote application, respective contact information inassociation with the listing of names.
 12. The method recited in claim1, further comprising: identifying actionable characteristics associatedwith the first selection of data based upon an analysis of a user stateof the first user as defined on the remote service; comparing theidentified actionable attributes with a database of operationalinstructions matched with stored actionable attributes to identifyoperational instructions associated with the identified actionableattributes; and executing the identified operational instructions. 13.The method recited in claim 1 further comprising identifying actionablecharacteristics associated with the second selection of data based uponan analysis of a user state of the second user as set thereby on theremote service, wherein the analysis of the user state includesidentifying routing, origination or destination information associatedwith the second selection of data.
 14. The method recited in claim 1further comprising transmitting instructions to the remote service topublish the second selection of data in conjunction with the telephonyinteraction.